Ohio man drives across the country rescuing dogs

8:40 AM,
May 13, 2014

Greg Mahle, with his dogs Murphy, right, Beans and Treasure, in the Rescue Road Trips trailer. Mahle drives more than 40,000 miles a year rescuing dogs from shelters and pounds in the south. Each trip can save about 80 dogs from being euthanized.

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Anna Rumer
Staff Writer

Driving more than 1 million miles in 9 1/2 years - the equivalent of taking a trip to the moon and back twice - is an exhausting journey for one man to make, but for Greg Mahle, it's not about the mileage or the journey. It's about saving dogs.

For almost a decade, Mahle has operated Rescue Road Trips, a service that transports shelter dogs from overpopulated Southern shelters and transports them via semitrailer to people in the North looking for a new member of the family.

Every other week, Mahle leaves his wife and stepson, traveling from their home in Zanesville to Houston, Texas, where he starts ...